寧靜的森林水池 A Still Forest Pool 第二章 更正我們的知見 Correcting Our Views

Correcting Our Views

第二章 更正我們的知見

When you pick mushrooms, Achaan Chah cautions, you must know what to look for. When you undertake spiritual practice you must also know what attitudes to nourish, what dangers to avoid, and what mental qualities to encourage.

　　「當你采磨菇時，」阿姜 查告誡我們說：「你必須知道要找什麼；當你從事精神上的修行時，也必須知道要培養什麼樣的態度、要避免什　樣的危險，以及要策勵出什麼樣的心理特質。」

Here he emphasizes the power of training our endurance and courage, developing a willingness to find the Middle Path and follow it despite temptation and defilement. When greed, hatred, or delusion arise, he says, don’t give in to them. Don’t be discouraged. Just stay mindful and strong in your resolve.

　　在此，他強調要訓練自我的耐力和勇氣的力量，也強調要去增長一種尋求中道的意願，並追隨它──雖然會有誘惑和煩惱。當貪、嗔、痴生起時，他說：「不要對它們屈服，不要氣餒，只要保持正念，以及堅定你的決心。」

As your training develops you will see that every single experience you pass through is impermanent, and thus unsatisfactory. You will discover firsthand the end less truth of these characteristics in all existence and begin to learn the way of freedom, of nonattachment. But Achaan Chah reminds us that this requires a willingness to investigate both our sufferings and our joys with an equal mind.

　　就在你的訓練增長之際，你將會發現，每一個你所經歷的經驗，都是如此的無常和苦(不圓滿)。你會直接地在這一切存在體的特質中發現永恆的真理，並開始去學習解脫和不執著之道。可是，阿姜 查提醒我們：這是需要願意以一種平等的心情去觀照我們的苦與樂的。

When the heart becomes calm and the mind clear, we come closer to the truth of what Achaan Chah calls, “Just that much.” The, Dharma, the truth, is really very simple. All things that arise and pass, the whole world of changing phenomena, is really only “that much!” When we truly discover what this means, then here in our world we can come to peace.

　　在心情逐漸平靜下來，且清明時，我們便更貼近了阿姜 查所謂的真理：「如此而已!」。「法」──真理，是非常簡單的。所有事物的生滅──整個世界的變化現象，真的就只是「如此而已!」。當我們真正體悟其涵義時，在我們這個世界里，就可以尋得平靜了。